Portfolio/Program Manager

Job Title-: Program Manager

Duration- 12 Months

Location-: Newark, NJ

Job Description:

• Supports delivery for the Information Security Office program and the lead program manager by coordinating planning, tracking, and reporting across multiple initiatives and workstreams.
• Maintains program artifacts and operating rhythm, ensures consistent status visibility, and helps manage risks, issues, dependencies, and action items.
• Partners with technology, security, and business stakeholders to improve execution discipline, support governance needs, and ensure work is progressing toward agreed outcomes and control-ready deliverables.
• Support quarterly/monthly planning by capturing information, validating scope assumptions, and partnering with initiative owners to define milestones, dependencies, and delivery dates.
• Maintain integrated views of work in-flight (roadmap, milestone plan, workstream tracker), and drive follow-ups to keep plans current and actionable.
• Assist in preparing materials for planning and prioritization decisions (options, tradeoffs, sequencing, capacity constraints).
• Own day-to-day program reporting and executive-ready summaries (weekly status, KPI/OKR views, delivery health, risk themes).
• Ensure status inputs are timely, consistent, and outcome-based; normalize across teams to enable clear rollups. Track and publish practical metrics such as milestone attainment, aged risks/issues, dependency health, and adoption/readiness signals. Draft communications for key stakeholders and maintain a transparent source of truth for program performance.
• Track cross-team dependencies (e.g., architecture, infrastructure, GRC, product/engineering), coordinate interlock sessions as needed, and document decisions.
• Support governance forums by building agendas, capturing notes, and ensuring decisions and actions are closed with accountable owners and due dates.
• Partner with stakeholders to ensure initiative artifacts meet governance and audit expectations (e.g., scope documentation, control mappings, evidence needs, approvals).
• Track operational readiness activities (runbooks, support models, training, handoffs).

• Program/Project Management experience